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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The imaginary: A human-non-human-animal interface -- 1. Human-animal metaphors: Identity and similarity at issue -- 2. Phenomenology of the animal imaginary: Non-human subjects, ambiguous worlds, empathy -- 3. Animal bodies and the virtual: Animals as real phantoms -- 4. They talk the way we dream: Animal communication and the symbolic realm -- 5. Metamorphoses and corporeal imagination: The "second person" at stake -- Conclusion: Why imagine (with) animals? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cette étude a pour objet la conception merleau-pontyenne de l'imaginaire et la manière dont elle conduit à repenser radicalement le réel dans sa totalité et, finalement, à imposer une ontologie dont l'imaginaire est le principe même, « l'institution de l'Etre ».

Feminist philosophy seems to always exceed its own limits – it is dynamic, shifting, and in dialogue with other academic disciplines. The adjective "feminist" marks not so much a specific subfield of philosophy or topic that is studied, but a political sensibility, an engagement in practicing philosophy. The playful title 'Purple Brains' indicates a thinking that goes beyond established binaries, notably the gender binary signified by the colors pink and blue.
As feminists, we face the challenge of finding our own place and inventing ways to understand and overcome discrimination and exclusion. Situated within a world we want to change, feminists cannot afford to reject unlikely interlocutors out of hand, but must instead engage in interdisciplinary, intergenerational and cross-fertilizing dialogues.
This volume brings together 19 articles that practice feminist philosophy through an engagement with the work of Dutch philosopher Veronica Vasterling. As one of the pioneering women philosophers active in Dutch academia since the mid-1980s, Vasterling explicitly expanded her outlook to embrace feminist themes and authors. She stands out as a prominent figure in the exploration of the boundaries of feminism through critical dialogue across multiple perspectives. Her work not only explores neuropsychology through a feminist lens but also extends into domains such as critical phenomenology of gender and race, critical hermeneutics, and subjects including sexual difference, the philosophical oeuvre of Hannah Arendt, and that of Judith Butler.